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by rst 11y ago
There's more than one artist on her label (which, by he way, is not owned by her or her family, though they do have a minority stake).
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by rst 11y ago
FWIW, those figures are in dispute. Swift and her management publicly stated that she was getting a lot less from Spotify -- IIRC, under $1 million. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-taylor-swift-earned-...
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by rst 11y ago
Snowden didn't create any flaws in NSA's internal systems (or at least, none that anyone's described publicly), but his actions certainly demonstrate that they were there. All Schneier is saying is that someone else could hav
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by rst 11y ago
The SuperDracos have already been through a full-duration simulation of the abort profile at SpaceX's test facility in Texas. It's more a test of system integration: that the guidance system is able to command them correctly, tha
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by rst 12y ago
At least one stat shown is already out of date; the quickest turnaround so far was 19 days, from launch 15 (DSCOVER) to launch 16 (two comsats). They will improve on this if they get the TurkmenAlem launch off today. Agreed with others on
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by rst 12y ago
Typical Linux servers drop privileges before accepting any connections from clients, precisely to limit the scope of this sort of vulnerability.
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by rst 12y ago
Much of this commentary was written while the attack was still in progress; it presumes that Github would be forced to fold, and goes on to assess tye consequences. This has been... overtaken by events.
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by rst 12y ago
This is an arena in which malice could plausibly try to disguise itself as incompetence. It's fine to give people the benefit of that doubt, but it is a doubt.
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by rst 12y ago
Maybe they could -- it might not be a wise move, particularly given the political tensions which obviously exist already, and it would certainly be inflammatory, but it may well be technically possible. Github serves HTML over HTTPS, which
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by rst 12y ago
Because Github does not want to be complicit in Chinese government censorship, and if they blocked what that government obviously wants them to block, then they would be.
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JRuby+Truffle runs *fast* on pixel-pushing benchmarks(chrisseaton.com)
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by rst 12y ago
Not really -- the engines that USAF is using for launching spysats are new-build (RD-180, not the rebuilt NK-33s on Antares), and their supply was a political issue for months before the Antares launch failure. The politics got tense here
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by rst 12y ago
It's going to be cheaper, but still in the millions, and not just because you still need to pay for a new second stage. There's also nontrivial cost associated with range safety, payload setup, and so forth (which are operations
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by rst 12y ago
That's all speculation on the part of the reporter, and a lot of it is oddly ungrounded. SpaceX has already built its own spacecraft prep facilities and launch pads at its two existing sites (Canaveral and Vandenberg), which already a
585.
by rst 12y ago
Both have made several appearances in the US promoting the film; Greenwald has also been on a book tour. They're probably taking care with what they try to take through customs (if anything), but simply visiting doesn't seem (for
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by rst 12y ago
Note that uninstalling the program doesn't completely undo the damage; you also need to get rid of the trusted certificate that it uses to make all of its forged certs look legitimate to the browsers. (The private key for that cert
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by rst 12y ago
A cloudflare developer (I think) has put a test site up here: https://filippo.io/Badfish/ The idea is something like <img src="haveproblem.gif" onError="this.src='noproblem.gif'&#
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by rst 12y ago
Mercury delay lines are literally tanks of liquid, which are prone to leaks, sometimes without warning. Dangerous anywhere, particularly ill-suited to a museum kids may visit. As to architectural properties, the main thing that they want o
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by rst 12y ago
Not sure whether "over the top" was meant as a complaint; I visited last summer, and thought the (obviously expensive) displays were pretty effective. The main grounds of the museum (the "tourist operation") also now ha
590.
by rst 12y ago
Which is reportedly the case, without exaggeration. According to one CIA agent's memoir, the group in charge of monitoring Iraqi WMD activity was literally told, by their boss, "Let's face it. The President wants us to go to
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by rst 12y ago
A doctrinaire Ayn-Rand-ian got control of Sears a few years ago and tried it: http://www.alternet.org/economy/ayn-rand-sears-and-eddie-lam... Didn't work out too well. Some units needed to work together for the o
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by rst 12y ago
Depends what market you're targeting. Google's "Project Loon" (data delivery from antennas stationed on high-altitude blimps) was explicitly targeted at third-world areas without much on-the-ground infrastructure.
593.
by rst 12y ago
So far, they seem to be claiming that US law enforcement thought someone else was a viable suspect -- and they've got internal LE memos to back that up.
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by rst 12y ago
Also attitude control. The stage isn't going to be much of a glider no matter what you do with it, but at terminal velocity, it has nontrivial lift and drag, and changing those will change the trajectory.
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by rst 12y ago
The earlier set of IP addresses was pretty conclusively not North Korea. The new set of IP addresses is ... undisclosed, so until that changes, they can say whatever they like without any "danger" of being checked. (Not buying &q
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by rst 12y ago
The F1 is not a staged combustion engine; it's a stock-issue gas generator -- as are the Merlin engines on the current generation of SpaceX rockets. SpaceX is working on a staged combustion engine (the Raptor) for their next generatio
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by rst 12y ago
So they delegated security to a separate team, which only got to put "reinforced firewalls and IPS appliances" around an app which was still missing basic internal security checks. (And it's hard to see how firewalls could d
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by rst 12y ago
Someone needs to check out the lyrics to the song Houses of the Holy (which, oddly enough, is not on the album of the same name): From the houses of the holy, we can watch the white doves go From the door comes Satan's daughter
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by rst 12y ago
Faked timestamps have played a role in at least one high-profile case in the past: the forged evidence presented at the Turkish Ergenekon trials: http://balyozdavasivegercekler.com/2012/10/04/dani-rodrik-di...
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by rst 12y ago
The X-15 was also a milestone in the development of flight control systems -- in some phases of flight, the aircraft was too unstable to be easily controlled by a human pilot, and on most flights, it had machinery massaging the pilot's

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